Running The Gauntlet And Recovering A Lost River
On Tuesday at 12:30 on KYRS, Bart Mihailovich and I will interview Jim Norton and Steve Hawley. Norton is responsible for a new PBS documentary Salmon: Running the Gauntlet and Hawley, journalist and author of the recently published Recovering a Lost River: Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities. Jim and Steven will discuss their works and the current state of wild salmon in the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
The recent release film and book is well-timed. A judge is expected to rule this spring on whether the Obama Administration’s proposed salmon recovery efforts meet law and science, or whether more needs to be done to save a species so important to the Northwest’s culture, economy, and way of life.
Wednesday, May 4th, 7 pm
Caterina Winery
905 N Washington Street
Spokane WA
Salmon: Running the Gauntlet
Boise film maker and river guide Jim Norton’s new PBS documentary airs nationally on Nature May 1. This film investigates the parallel stories of collapsing Pacific salmon populations and how biologists and engineers have become instruments in audacious experiments to replicate every stage of the fish’s life cycle.
A 150 year old misunderstanding of the natural world has converged with compassion, ingenuity, and hubris in what is now among the most expensive natural resource recovery efforts in history. The modern techno-industrial hatchery and mitigation complex has turned the iconic into the ironic, and even our metrics of success measure something almost unrecognizable from what we set out to save. Take a sneak peak at this beautiful and compelling film at: http://video.pbs.org/video/1862122371/
Journalist and writer Steven J. Hawley’s book is a powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic and environmental sense–and requires our urgent attention. Hawley shows how river restoration, with dam removal as its centerpiece, is not only a virtuous ecological practice but also a growing social and economic enterprise, stretching from Maine’s Kennebec to California’s Klamath, and ultimately, hopefully, to the Snake as well.
Books will be available for Purchase!
For more information please contact Sam Mace at 509-747-2030 or sam@wildsalmon.org. Event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs appreciated.
